{"id":6456,"date":"2014-12-05T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T00:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6456"},"modified":"2014-12-05T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T00:55:21","slug":"two-tanka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6456","title":{"rendered":"Two Tanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Ortolani<\/p>\n<p>high on Mt. Sneffels<br \/>\nhikers pass<br \/>\nin deep cloud cover &#8212;<br \/>\nno way up or down<br \/>\nwithout disappearing<\/p>\n<p>poncho over my head<br \/>\nknees to chin<br \/>\nhail rattles the couloir<br \/>\nwhere I sit<br \/>\nwith other stones<\/p>\n<p><strong>AL ORTOLANI<\/strong>\u2019s poetry and reviews have appeared in journals such as <em>Prairie Schooner<\/em>, <em>New Letters<\/em>, <em>Word Riot<\/em>, and the <em>New York Quarterly<\/em>. His fifth collection of poems, <em>Waving Mustard in Surrender<\/em>, was released in 2014 from New York Quarterly Books. Currently, he is teaching English in the Kansas City area and serves on the Board of Directors of the Kansas City Writers Place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Ortolani high on Mt. Sneffels hikers pass in deep cloud cover &#8212; no way up or down without disappearing poncho over my head knees to chin hail rattles the couloir where I sit with other stones AL ORTOLANI\u2019s poetry &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":6452,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6456","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1G8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6464,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6456\/revisions\/6464"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}